[nycbug-talk] Defcon News Blurbs

[Steven Kreuzer]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 09:28:34PM -0400, Isaac Levy wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> In the Vegas airport after Defcon 16 with *lots* of time to kill, and  
> thought I'd toss some fun tidbits to the list:
> 
> OpenBSD and PF in the opening paragraph:
> http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/08/a-first-ever-lo.html
> 
> FreeBSD jail(8) used again for this year's CTF competition servers,  
> nobody breaks out yet (more on this to come from me in the future...)
> 
> An interesting talk:
> Toasterkit, a Modular NetBSD Rootkit
> Anthony Martinez Systems Administrator, New Mexico Tech
> Thomas	Bowen Systems Administrator, New Mexico Tech
> https://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-16/dc-16-speakers.html#Martinez
> 
> Also- ran into a fistfull of folks from the NYCResistor group,  
> hardware hackers who have a space in Downtown Brooklyn:
> http://www.nycresistor.com/
> 
> --
> Excellent content this year- truly stellar.  More fun to post if I  
> ever get done catching up on my email...
> 
> Rocket-
> .ike
> 
> 
> --
> PS: IR File Transfer Port on the Defcon 16 badges:


> 
> 
> The Leaked Story (good pics):
> http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/08/exclusive-defco.html
> 

A little off topic, but the slides for the talk about hacking
the subway system got posted online.

http://www-tech.mit.edu/V128/N30/subway/Defcon_Presentation.pdf

The talk didn't happen at defcon because a judge slapped a gag
order on the presenters.

Very interesting read

-- 
Steven Kreuzer
http://www.exit2shell.com/~skreuzer